ha ha ha bless your soul

This is still one of the most incredibly geeky and fabulous things in the history of the universe.

also, you know Joe Trohman was watching this with little cartoon hearts in his eyes.

gridiron gang

It's pretty much Dangerous Minds! Except the kids are already in jail and there's no Nice White Lady to save them! Only The Rock and Xzibit and the power of BELIEVING IN YOURSELF!

*heartsheartshearts*

Cheesy inspirational sports films about the underdogs coming back to win despite the odds because they just believe in themselves and form a team out of a bunch of misfits = AWESOME.

(um. no, seriously, it's kind of a bulletproof kink. small band of misfits triumphing against a hostile world through the power of teamwork = WIN.)

plus, damn y'all, that was a cast of pretty pretty people. I may have spent some time going, "THE ROCK + XZIBIT = BFF!"

there was a trailer for crossover which. it looks so bad, y'all. so bad. and yet. Ooh, and Stomp the Yard.

come with me if you want to live

upon watching The Terminator -

Wow. Two deleted scenes that a) make Sarah Connor THAT MUCH MORE AWESOME and b) Reese THAT MUCH MORE PSYCHO.

In the first one, Sarah decides to take out Cyberdyne, Reese freaks out, and Sarah tells him (essentially) to go fuck himself because she's tired and scared and doesn't want to look over her shoulder for the rest of her life and Reese basically has a nervous breakdown because he can't handle a world that's so drastically different than anything he's ever known. As per James Cameron, he regrets taking out the scene because it's taking agency away from Sarah Connor, but it's also the premise for the second movie and he figured one Reese breakdown was enough to show that he had basically turned himself into a machine. Whatever, James Cameron, you should have left it in because it made Sarah Connor kick that much more ass. A day after being hunted down and almost killed and she's already going, "Hey, you know what would kick ass? TAKING OUT THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THE MACHINES." That is the Sarah Connor that raises the leader of the human resistance.

In the second one, Sarah tries to look on the bright side and is all la la when we are free from the machines, we will go to the movies and have popcorn! and Reese is like, "WTF?" and Sarah's all, "STFU, I am being an optimist goddammit because otherwise this all sucks SO BAD." And they talk about how Reese brings the war with him wherever he goes/whatever he does and Sarah feels that she's crossed the line into living in Reese's world. Draws some nice parallels between the legend of Sarah Connor (as John tells it to Reese) and the legend (as she tells it to John) of Kyle Reese as well as the perpetual crazy survivalist guerilla warfare mindset.

Also deleted, a whole slew of scenes with Lt. Traxler whose arc, I suppose, is now being given to Richard T Jones' James Ellison as the cop who believes the Connors aren't entirely batshit.

moving on to T2: Judgment Day.

T2: ahahahahaha. emo john connor. AHAHAHAHA. Crazy Sarah Connor is still hot. Miles Dyson is still awesome. S. Epatha was his wife! Yay for S. Epatha! I thought the bits with the learning chip were awesome and how it's set to read-only. But mostly I just laughed at emo john connor.

it's the end of the world as we know it

Things I have learned about how to survive the apocalypse, assuming I make it past the initial apocalyptic event:

1) Go to Hoover Dam powered areas. Mostly automated power generation. At least until the tiny mollusks kill it. Still though, that's a year. Long enough to scavenge and learn other things.
2) Do not become fond of highly bred dogs.
3) Scavenge grocery stores early.
4) within a year or so, plants start taking over civilization and crumbling buildings. OH APOCALYPSES. HOW SO AWESOME. Within 5 years = nada.
5) So Cal will be taken out by wildfires. Like always.
6) Avoid places with large zoos. Escondido = right out.
7) Feral dogs are a danger.
8) Some cities will be under water.

So, my plan for the apocalypse is essentially to pick people up and head to Vegas/Lake Mead to scavenge. And then probably up north where there's more fresh water and a more hospitable climate. What I'm now trying to decide is if it is easier to maintain a massive but existing infrastructure or to try to construct a new, small-scale one.

Poor Manhattan. It totally gets a raw deal apocalyptically. I suppose that's what one gets for being an island.

eta: Dear History Channel, what is this bullshit no remnants thing? HELLO, DID YOU NOT CONSULT ANY ARCHAEOLOGISTS?

eta2: The scottish engineer is hilaaaaaaarious.

eta3: dude. History Channel. THIS IS BAD RESEARCH. I mean, seriously, talk to an archaeologist once in a while!

eta4: i really kind of wish this had been a Discovery Channel show instead. Then it would have higher production values and probably better science. But maybe no scottish engineer.

eta5: HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SOME AWFUL, HISTRIONIC "SCIENCE." IT WAS "ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!?" LEVELS OF BAD SCIENCE.